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Family Birthday Party for Woman Who Won't Remember It
Published in the Spring 2018 issue of The Auburn Circle. The game that we counselors played for weeks that year at camp was this;...
Melanie Hughes
Mar 1, 20199 min read
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The art of lasso-ing a storm (living & drowning) (& traveling alone with your parents as an adult.)
Published in the Spring 2020 issue of The Auburn Circle. The weather radar glowed red around our coordinates in the sea. For several...
Melanie Hughes
Mar 1, 201913 min read
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Trusty and True
I have a long history with Damien Rice. He was only present in it in flesh for one evening, while I, on the other hand, have been present...
Melanie Hughes
Mar 1, 201918 min read
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The Sign on the Fence
It was obvious he had come from thetracks. Most of our visitors did, for if you set your eyes upon the trees long enough to actually...
Melanie Hughes
Mar 1, 201910 min read
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Look at the birds of the air
I bought pool noodles and went to a creek with my friends. Baby rapids flew us past rocks on our orange and green life lines. Children....
Melanie Hughes
Mar 1, 20191 min read
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Consider the lilies of the field
There is a park That I lay in. I check my shoes For spiders. I feel blades Of grass and weeds poke Through my blanket. Last spring, every...
Melanie Hughes
Mar 1, 20191 min read
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River of Roses
Like cardinals, yes, fiery Butterflies, the leaves Now finally changing with The awakening air, all Fluttering from above, falling In...
Melanie Hughes
Mar 1, 20191 min read
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Fissured Girl
My friends don’t know how much I love horses, how I went to a rodeo, laughed the whole time about being there, but left and thought, if I...
Melanie Hughes
Mar 1, 20191 min read
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I Suppose
If every book Filled with words Became blank, If the trees Sacrificed Themselves to serve The stories, If every hand Chose a pen And...
Melanie Hughes
Mar 1, 20191 min read
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Whisper
Whisper, whisper, softer now. Hush. The cave drafts quiet moans. It drips, drops pellets of dew. Tapping, tapping. The echoes slapping...
Melanie Hughes
Mar 1, 20192 min read
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Indecision of the Heart, Disconnection of the Mind
There are two paths, As there usually are— Maybe three, five. When weighed on a scale They come back even, Teetering up and down, Back...
Melanie Hughes
Mar 1, 20191 min read
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The Loss, the Gain of the World
For the end I will be gone. I will be a sea away, I must move to remember the world, but the return— It comes after you depart. Before me...
Melanie Hughes
Mar 1, 20191 min read
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